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It is my belief that hyp­no­therapy is the best com­pli­mentary therapy because hypnosis affects people at every level including psy­cho­logical, physiological, emo­tional, and even spiritual. And really, only hyp­no­therapy has the power to do that.

It allows you to work on specific problems one by one, but at the same time, it can improve your overall health
and well-​​being in several areas con­cur­rently. Some people seek hyp­no­therapy to address a specific area while others seek the overall benefits of hypnosis on a regular, ongoing basis. Many people use hypnosis alone while others sup­plement it with other forms of therapy.

Although every form of therapy is valuable on its own, there is a definite overlap within all methods of treatment. What hypnosis does is it provides a link and it connects those areas together physiologically.

Whether you are in physical therapy recovering from an injury, or in psy­cho­therapy due to emo­tional stress, it doesn’t matter. Hypnosis can com­pliment either or both of those treatments, because hypnosis has the power to affect all those areas in a positive way. So in com­pliment to your physical therapy, it can help you cope on an emo­tional level with the strain of the injury.

If you are trying acu­puncture to help you quit smoking, there is a specific technique that addresses your physical need for nicotine, but acu­puncture alone does little to tackle the psy­cho­logical craving, the mental tug of war that plays out in the early stages of breaking any pattern of long standing, habitual behaviour. Hyp­no­therapy can com­pliment the acu­puncture by addressing the psy­cho­logical need for relief.

Another excellent example of combined therapy is the effect of aro­ma­therapy. When I tried an aro­ma­therapy massage, there is no question I was subdued into total relaxation. It was a fantastic experience in itself, and in my case, I actually achieved hypnosis. It’s bene­ficial by itself, or it can be used as an aide for inducing hypnosis.

Hyp­no­therapy utilizes a mixture of dif­ferent models that people are already exerting; they’re just made more powerful when used with hypnosis. Nearly all therapies are suc­cessful at pro­ducing change in a specific area. Hyp­no­therapy simply produces change in more areas. This fact makes it the best com­pli­mentary therapy in addition to being an excellent stand alone treatment for many problems, specific or combined.

It is important to remember that hyp­no­therapy is not intended to replace modern medicine or in any way refute its effect­iveness. You may choose to use hyp­no­therapy alone instead of main­stream treatment for whatever con­dition you are addressing, and that’s a personal choice any indi­vidual can make, but it’s not our mandate as hyp­no­ther­apists to replace modern medicine, nor do we suggest that hypnosis ever could.

Alternative medicine, which is quite commonly used these days, is very much posi­tioned to offer people a dif­ferent way to address their health issues. It essen­tially opposes tra­di­tional medicine, by offering stand alone treatments that would directly conflict with tra­di­tional treatment and cannot be safely or effectively combined. I would abso­lutely not place hyp­no­therapy in that category. Hyp­no­ther­apists are not in com­petition with doctors and health care
workers, and we do not suggest that anyone abandon their medical prac­ti­tioner in favour of hypnotherapy.

By contrast, I believe that hypnosis is an excellent com­panion to modern medicine. We tend to forget that hypnosis has been used for many years by doctors and health care pro­fes­sionals like psy­cho­logists. It in no way undermines the effect­iveness of modern treatment. Rather, it can com­pliment it quite nat­urally and quite effectively.

For instance, if you are trying to quit smoking, hyp­no­therapy alone can help immensely, but if you are also using the patch, then you are increasing your odds of success. There is no conflict… one treatment works extremely well with the other.

If you are taking any type of treatment for a medical con­dition and you find yourself struggling with the side effects, you can turn to hyp­no­therapy to alleviate the intensity of the side effects and increase you tol­erance of the med­ication, so that it can do its job.

The word alternative suggests that we are looking for a dif­ferent way of doing things. We’re not. We’re looking to provide a means for the improved physical and mental health of anyone and everyone who needs it. I believe that modern medicine is already doing that. I also believe that hyp­no­therapy is the ultimate com­pli­mentary therapy and can help in so many ways.

This article was ori­ginally pub­lished on www.HypnotherapyClinic.info by Con­sultant Clinical Hyp­no­therapist & Pys­cho­therapist Noel Bradford –

As a pro­fes­sional therapist Noel help people with everything that you would expect including giving up smoking, con­trolling their weight, dealing with fears and phobias. However his services go far beyond this and encompass things that affect everyone at some time in their life, such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks, stress, and low self esteem.

He  also has detailed spe­cialist training in several areas including but not limitted to Irrittable Bowel Syndrome and Pyscho­sexual matters that affect men such as Errectile Dys­function and Pre­mature Ejac­u­lation as well as those affecting women such as Hyper Desire Disorder, Vaginisums, and Dys­pareunia.

Ori­ginally posted 2010-​​03-​​05 15:03:00.